There were two strange things about the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. The first strange thing is that the official who is known as the one who scares the sky and the earth, goes up to the first assistant of the emperor's cabinet, and goes down to Zhang Guangshan in the east of the city to go to Widow Li's house in the middle of the night. In the fashionable words of later generations, they are either scolding people, or running on the road of scolding people.

The second strange thing is that civil officials are like military generals, and military generals are like civilian officials. If you want to let the civil officials choose the most comfortable dynasty, it must be the Ming Dynasty, of course, this will have to be delayed for a period of time, at least until the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

The civil officials of the Ming Dynasty are like military generals, who add their fists and feet when they don't agree with each other, like a shrew scolding the street, which is regardless of the occasion.

As for the generals, they are submissive, and they can hide when they encounter problems. Whatever you say is what you say, I just listen to it, and I do what you ask me to do, like a good baby.

As for why this happened, we have to look at a piece of history.

At the beginning, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty were by no means as lawless as the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and they could fight in the morning and in the morning.

Comrade Lao Zhu, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, killed civil officials like killing chickens, and generally raised and fell with a knife. In the end, the first thing the officials did when they went to court was to say goodbye to their families, perhaps going in vertically in the morning, but coming out lying down when they got off work.

The officials were so afraid of being killed that no one wanted to be officials anymore, so Comrade Lao Zhu directly ordered that people with meritorious names from all over the country must be selected to become officials in the court.

The civil officials boiled and boiled, and finally boiled Lao Zhu to death. Lao Zhu's eldest grandson, Zhu Yunwen, ascended the throne, thinking that spring was coming, but who expected that Lao Zhu's fourth son, Comrade Xiao Zhu, was dissatisfied with his nephew's ascension to the throne, and directly rebelled and finally succeeded.

In the end, Comrade Xiao Zhu is the son of Comrade Lao Zhu, and the blood on his body is the same.

After Comrade Xiao Zhu ascended the throne at that time, the literati of the world and even some civil officials in the imperial court thought that Comrade Xiao Zhu was plotting to usurp the throne and was a great rebellion. Comrade Xiao Zhu was very depressed, so he found Song Lian, the leader of the literary world at that time, and hoped that he could say good things.

As a result, Song Lian also had a stinky temper, and even though Comrade Xiao Zhu was a high-ranking official and Houlu, she still threatened with words. just refused to open his mouth to say good things for Comrade Xiao Zhu, and finally scolded Comrade Xiao Zhu.

As mentioned above, Comrade Xiao Zhu and Comrade Lao Zhu have the same temper. Song Lian's scolding made Comrade Xiao Zhu very annoyed, and he directly ordered the killing of Song Lian's ten clans.

If we watch TV, we will find that after provoking the emperor, the emperor will say that he will punish his nine clans. In fact, throughout the history of China, except for Comrade Xiao Zhu, other emperors have killed the three tribes at most, that is, they plus their brothers and sisters, parents-in-law, parents-in-law and children.

In his anger, Comrade Xiao Zhu issued an order to punish the ten clans, which exhausted the officials at that time, because the nine clans could be said to have counted all their relatives. In the end, there was no way, the official could only report to Comrade Xiao Zhu.

"Boss, your old man ordered the Ten Clans, we can only find people within the Nine Clans, and we really can't find the Tenth Clan, or you will always give a hint."

Comrade Xiao Zhu also looked at it, and all the relatives within the nine clans were already counted. In the end, he had no choice, so he directly ordered his friends, teachers, classmates, and even students to be killed together in the tenth clan.

It was not until Comrade Xiao Zhu's death that his son succeeded to the throne that the civilian officials did not have to fight and live in the shadow of the two comrades, Lao Zhu and Xiao Zhu.

Although Comrade Lao Zhu and Comrade Xiao Zhu died, Zhu Gaoxu, who was known as a good old man, succeeded to the throne. The civil officials still couldn't be as lawless as later generations, because there was another group that could restrain them at that time, and that was the martial aristocracy after the Jingjing.

However, it is a pity that Mingzong Zhu Qizhen, a stunned man, was bewitched by the great eunuch Wang Zhen, and took the miscellaneous troops of the Beijing Military Region and the surrounding areas of Beijing at that time, all the way north to solve the rising Tile Thorn tribe at that time, and finally became a prisoner of others. And this is not the most important, the important thing is that the military nobles at that time were almost completely wiped out, and from then on, the military attachés could no longer compete with the civilian officials, and could only be reduced to vassals.

Of course, some scholars in Houshi believe that the Tumubao Incident is likely to be a coup d'état carried out by civilian officials, because according to historical records, the Tile Spur troops were able to set up ambushes on the road of the Ming army's advance every time. As we all know, the actions of the army are secretive, and it may be possible to be touched once or twice, but it is a bit strange to be touched every time.

If you know the history of the Ming Dynasty, you will find that after the Tumubao Incident. The emperors of the Ming Dynasty began to stop going to court, the most famous of which was that the Wanli Emperor did not go to court for 30 years.

Some people may not know what the early dynasty is equivalent to the ancient court, but if you say it differently, it will be clear.

In the early dynasty, according to the current statement, that is, **** led the prime minister, the Standing Committee and the bigwigs of various departments to hold a meeting in the State Council.

At this time, the boss of a certain department put forward some suggestions or a plan for dealing with something. At this time, people who have some contradictions with this big guy will raise objections. In the end, the two sides debated, and if they couldn't debate each other, they would add up bad words and even fight in front of the **** and the prime minister, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty were like this.

However, the officials made such a big noise, but they were busy with the imperial history who was in charge of picketing. Because they had to record all the impoliteness of some officials in the early court, and then report to the emperor, and then punish the crime, of course, in the end, they had to stop it.

Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting on the dragon chair, watched the officials in the audience stage a full martial arts parade in front of him, and he was dumbfounded.

"Even Western countries, which claim to be democracies, have never fought like this."

Zhu Youxiao can be said to be angry and can't help but want to be happy.

Zhu Youxiao here was entangled in whether he was angry or happy, but Wei Zhongxian and the six cabinet members who were standing on the side seemed to be commonplace, and they didn't have any look on their faces, so they closed their eyes and recuperated. And the officials who fought in the court also intentionally or unintentionally kept the battlefield away from a few cabinet elders and six Shangshu.

It's a fight and a fight, but it has to be resolved, isn't it? At that time, such matters had to be handled by cabinet members in the end. Then it was reported to the emperor for approval, and of course, all such things as P red were handed over to Wei Zhongxian to deal with before.

When the officials are tired of beating and scolding, then the officials will stand in line again, put their shoes and hats back on, line up, and then ask the emperor for guilt, and let the emperor punish them for the crime of dereliction of honor in front of the king.

Zhu Youxiao looked at all the officials who were kneeling on the ground, and couldn't help but want to roar in his heart.

"If I really cure your sins, the sky of the Ming Dynasty will fall."

In the end, Zhu Youxiao's first court meeting in the Ming Dynasty ended in a farce, according to later generations.

The morning meeting was a success on the whole, and although there were some mistakes, they did not affect the overall situation, and the matter was satisfactorily resolved. As for the loss of honor in front of the king, everyone is for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, for the emperor, and for the people of the world, naturally there is nothing wrong with it, it is a situation where you are good, I am good, and everyone is good.

After the ebb tide, the officials, led by the bigwigs of their respective departments, returned to their offices in various regions to carry out their work. It's a pity that when they came, they were all well-dressed, but when they left, they had a blue nose and swollen face, just like after being robbed.

Of course, since there are quarrels and fights, it is natural to distinguish the winner from the loser, the winner holds his head high and is full of pride, and the loser is depressed, like a defeated rooster, thinking about how to win the other party next time.

However, it was the imperial historians in charge of picketing that they had to cry bitterly in the back with a thick record book.